Article snippet: In a piece titled, “They Are Not the Resistance. They Are Not a Cabal. They Are Public Servants. Let us now praise these not-silent heroes,” Michelle Cottle, a member of the editorial board, wrote: Praising the “whistleblower” who first went to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA)’s committee before filing any formal complaint, Cottle said the unelected public servants protesting the president from within “deserve our gratitude.” “Throughout the Trump presidency, there has been a trickle of fed-up individuals willing to step up and protest the administration’s war on science, expertise and facts,” Cottle wrote. Cottle, in her piece, pointed to three public servants who did not remain anonymous and actually quit their jobs, unlike the “whistleblower” — Rod Schoonover, an analyst for the State Department; Joel Clement, former director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the Interior Department; and Lewis Ziska, a veteran plant physiologist with the Agriculture Department. Cottle compared them to public servants at the State Department who have chosen to testify after House Democrats subpoenaed them as part of their impeachment inquiry against Trump. She noted that White House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney called them, “mostly career bureaucrats who are saying, ‘You know what, I don’t like President Trump’s politics, so I’m going to participate in this witch hunt.’” Cottle insisted that was not the case, and that instead, they are “veteran ... Link to the full article to read more